Sales of Australian Wine and Brandy by Winemakers, February 2000 ($15.00)

A

8731.0

Building Approvals, Australia, February 2000 ($18.00)

A

1307.4

South Australian Economic Indicators, April 2000 ($17.00)

8731.4

Building Approvals, South Australia, February 2000 ($17.00)

8731.7

Building Approvals, Northern Territory, February 2000 ($16.00)

New Issues

ABS@ - Key Client Intranet, 2000(1404.0.55.001), Electronic delivery is expected to be released on Monday 3 April 2000.

The Key Client Intranet is a Lotus Notes Database placed in the client environment and updated daily through Notes replication. It is available to key clients such as other government or private organisations, and will enable them to access the most up to date releases of publications and other relevant information such as the associated metadata, PC-AusStats data files and collection metadata on their existing intranet.

Home Security Precautions, New South Wales, October 1999 (4516.1) ($16.00) is expected to be released on Monday 17 April 2000.

Contains data for households in New South Wales on the extent of, and motivation for, usage of security precautions by households. For all households in NSW, includes data on presence of household security items, whether items are used, motivations for installing items and estimated expenditure on household security over twelve months.

International Merchandise Imports, Australia -- On AUSSTATS, March 2000 (5439.0.65.001), Other media is expected to be released on Tuesday 18 April 2000.

Contains information on the value of monthly merchandise imports classified by commodity, going back to January 1988. Also includes data classified by State, selected countries and 2 digit SITC.

Producer Price Indexes for Selected Service Industries, Australia, March Quarter 2000 (6423.0) ($15.50) is expected to be released on Tuesday 18 April 2000.

Presents producer price indexes for the output of a selection of transport and storage, and property and business services industries. These series are the release of indexes compiled under a long-term development program which will progressively expand coverage of the services sector of the economy.

Information Paper: ABS Statistics and The New Tax System, 2000 (1358.0) ($10.00) is expected to be released on Wednesday 26 April 2000.

Discusses impacts on statistical series resulting from The New Tax System that starts on 1 July 2000.

Housing and Infrastructure in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities, Australia, 1999 (4710.0) ($24.00) is expected to be released on Thursday 27 April 2000.

Provides information from the national Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey conducted between August to October, 1999. The publication presents summary information from all known Indigenous organisations that own or manage community housing including the condition and size of community houses, repairs and maintenance expenditure, and amount of rent collected. It contains summary information on the infrastructure of all discrete Indigenous communities such as water, electricity, sewerage, drainage, solid waste, transport, communication, education, health, and community facilities. Also includes information at the National and State levels (including Northern Territory) as well as maps showing the distribution of Indigenous housing organisations and discrete communities across Australia.

Directory of Child and Family Statistics, 2000 (4158.0) ($30.00) is expected to be released on Friday 28 April 2000.

Relates directly or indirectly to families and children in Australia. Provides descriptive information on various data sources, data items available, frequency of collections, publications produced and any reliability/confidentiality provisions.

Final Issues

Statistical Concepts Library, 2000 (1361.0.30.001), CD-ROM ($50.00) is expected to be released on Thursday 27 April 2000.

Participation in Education, Australia, September 1999 (6272.0) ($18.50) is expected to be released on Thursday 27 April 2000.

Similar data is available from the annual survey of Transition from Education to Work, Australia, 6227.0, run in May and released in the latter stages of each year.

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